| Abstract |
In situ lacquered objects (comb, ornament for the forehead, earrings), shark teeth, comma-shaped and other beads (detail). End Late Jomon. Grave 123 Kalinba 3 Site, Hokkaidô. The oldest lacquer ware artifacts were found in Kakinoshima B Site, Hokkaidô and date mid Initial Jomon (c. 9.000 BP). More lacquer artifacts were found at various slightly later sites on Hokkaidô and in the Tôhoku region of Honshû: pottery, wood, bamboo and wicker-work coated with a layer of lacquer, the highly poisonous sap of the lacquer tree Rhus verniciflua). The transparent raw lacquer was coloured red by adding haematite powder, the mineral form of Iron(III) oxide. This Japanese lacquer ware is older than the e
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